Larry
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Larry is the commonly used nickname of Lawrence Joseph Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and longtime leader of Oracle Corporation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4302824 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Larry Context triple: [Lawrence Joseph Ellison, hasNickname, Larry]
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A.
Larry
Larry is the given name of Larry Bird, the legendary Hall of Fame Boston Celtics forward widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players in NBA history.
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B.
Larry
Larry is the sarcastic and somewhat cynical cameraman who works alongside Phil Connors in the film "Groundhog Day."
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C.
Lee
Lee is a given name shared by numerous individuals across different cultures and professions.
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D.
Lee
Lee is a residential district in southeast London known for its suburban character, green spaces, and Victorian and Edwardian housing.
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E.
Lou
Lou is a character from the virtual reality co-op shooter game "After the Fall," set in a post-apocalyptic, frozen Los Angeles overrun by mutated creatures.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Larry Target entity description: Larry is the commonly used nickname of Lawrence Joseph Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and longtime leader of Oracle Corporation.
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A.
Larry
Larry is the given name of Larry Bird, the legendary Hall of Fame Boston Celtics forward widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players in NBA history.
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B.
Larry
Larry is the sarcastic and somewhat cynical cameraman who works alongside Phil Connors in the film "Groundhog Day."
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C.
Lee
Lee is a residential district in southeast London known for its suburban character, green spaces, and Victorian and Edwardian housing.
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D.
Lee
Lee is a given name shared by numerous individuals across different cultures and professions.
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E.
Lou
Lou is a character from the virtual reality co-op shooter game "After the Fall," set in a post-apocalyptic, frozen Los Angeles overrun by mutated creatures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessRanking | one of the richest people in the world ⓘ |
| coFounded | Oracle Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-08-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Chicago
ⓘ
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer | Oracle Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ellison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
database management systems
ⓘ
enterprise software ⓘ |
| founded |
Relational Software Inc.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Software Development Laboratories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
David Ellison
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Megan Ellison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
information technology
ⓘ
software industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | competitive sailing sponsorship ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedIn |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Oracle Corporation board of directors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Lawrence Joseph Ellison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| netWorthStatus | billionaire ⓘ |
| nickname | Larry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helping popularize relational database technology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding Oracle Corporation
ⓘ
leadership of Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of Oracle Database ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| owned | island of Lanai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York City
ⓘ
The Bronx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Oracle Corporation
ⓘ
CTO of Oracle Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ executive chairman of Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism (by birth) ⓘ |
| residence |
Lanai, Hawaii
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Woodside, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sportsTeamOwnerOf | SailGP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Larry Description of subject: Larry is the commonly used nickname of Lawrence Joseph Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and longtime leader of Oracle Corporation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lawrence Joseph Ellison